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Ericaceous vs Maidenhair - What's the difference?

ericaceous | maidenhair |

As an adjective ericaceous

is (especially of a plant) acid-loving, thriving in acidic conditions.

As a noun maidenhair is

either of two species of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially.

ericaceous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (especially of a plant) Acid-loving, thriving in acidic conditions.
  • acidic, acid-based
    • Camellias thrive when fed with an ericaceous fertiliser.
  • (botany) Of or pertaining to the heath family (Ericaceae )

    • maidenhair

    English

    (wikipedia maidenhair)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of two species of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially
  • * 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 178:
    • Our common Maidenhair does from a number of hard black fibres, send forth a great many blacking shining brittle stalks, hardly a span long [...].
  • Designating various types of moss or flowering plants.
  • * 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 318:
    • The ‘maidenhair’ in maidenhair moss, for instance, does not refer to the hair on the maiden's head.
  • or the checkerberry.

    • Synonyms

    * (fern): maidenhair fern